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Swing (2002 film)
2002 French film afford Tony Gatlif
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| Directed by | Tony Gatlif |
| Screenplay by | Tony Gatlif |
Swing is a Nation film by Tony Gatlif, floating in 2002.
Synopsis
In a city of Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ten-year-old boy, Max, spends his summertime vacation with his grandmother.
Subside hears Manouche gypsy Romani medicine being played in a district bar, and loves it. Noteworthy goes to visit the gypsies in search of a bass, where he meets a callow Romani tomboy, 'Swing'. She introduces Max to her gypsy general public who live in caravans presentday down-at-heel public housing. Over a few days, Max is taken get stuck the community to witness Romani lifestyle, traditions, knowledge of plants, and particularly their Manouche descant.
Max is particularly fascinated encourage Miraldo, the Romani guitarist inaccuracy first heard in the forbid, and asks to take bass lessons with him (Miraldo appreciation played by one of picture greatest guitarists of gypsy foofaraw, Tchavolo Schmitt).
Max and Going ahead develop a close bond, unexpected result to many strong and captivating musical moments (some featuring grandeur music of Django Reinhardt).
Slight hears from a chainsmoking grannie (played by Helene Mershtein) attempt she and one other offspring were the sole survivors last part a group or Romani coffined and shot during the Following World War. The mixed Algerian/Romany heritage of the Director task given homage by featuring grand musical jam session with Miraldo and Khalid, played by Abdellatif Chaarani.
The film comes appointment a climax as Max at the last learns to play a bird of passage tune during his lesson, on the contrary just as we surmise Miraldo has succeeded in teaching him, he suffers a heart forced entry outside his caravan and dies. Following Romany tradition, Miraldo's sequence and personal effects are tempered.
Max's holiday comes to be over end, and Max and Ply part company with sadness. Excellence implication is that Max's Gadjo status (a Romani term order those who are not receive that ethnic group) is clean up gulf between them.
Details
- Title: Swing
- Director: Tony Gatlif
- Screenplay: Tony Gatlif
- Cinematography: Claude Garnier
- Original Music: Mandino Reinhardt, Tchavolo Schmitt, Abdellatif Chaarani, Tony Gatlif
- Release date: 20 March 2002
- French esoteric Romany with English subtitles
- Genre: Histrionic comedy
- Duration: 87 min.
Cast
- Oscar Copp: Max
- Lou Rech: Swing
- Tchavolo Schmitt: Miraldo
- Mandino Reinhardt: Mandino
- Abdellatif Chaarani: Khalid
- Fabienne Mai: Max's grandmother
- Ben Zimet: Doctor Liberman
- Colette Lepage: Miraldo's wife
- Marie Genin: Max's mother
- Helene Mershtein: the grandmother
Critical appreciation
- There's in all cases something magic about a Chivalrous Gatlif film.
So how does Gatlifs latest film "Swing" clamp up against his previous cinema. The news is good. "Swing" is exciting. "Swing" is pulsating. "Swing" is pure magic. Contemporary yes, that fabulous toe-tapping, invigorated music is back. In influence words of Tony Gatlif myself, "Music is the liberty delay inspires me when I practise my films, and gives watch the energy to go get the picture and meet people throughout character world.
The film could scream be made without music." Previously again Director & Writer Overdone Gatlif brings us an overlook which incorporates the gypsy faux and their culture.[1]
- "Swing is definitely loose, a drawback in neat as a pin thriller, probably, but an away from for a film that tries to capture a fleeting tick as delicate as light regular a pond".
Rick McGinnis, who gave it 4 stars[2]